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BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION

Loomis, Catherine, ed. William Shakespeare: a Documentary Volume. Detroit: Gale Group, 2002.
     Ref. PR 2893 .W55 2002

Palmer, Alan Warwick. Who's Who in Shakespeare's England. Brighton: Harvester Press, 1981.
     Ref. DA 317 .P3

Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
Collection of 50,000 biographies of persons of note associated with the British Isles from the fourth century BC to 2000. Use to find biographical information about Shakespeare and his contemporaries. Remote access is available only to SLU students, faculty, and staff.

CRITICISM

Harris, Laurie Lanzen, ed. Shakespearean Criticism: Excerpts From the Criticism of William Shakespeare's Plays and Poetry, From the First Published Appraisals to Current Evaluations. Detroit: Gale Research, 1984-.
     Ref. PR 2965 .S43 1984 Significant excerpts of published criticism on the works of William Shakespeare.

DICTIONARIES & GLOSSARIES

Boyce, Charles. Critical Companion to William Shakespeare: A Literary Reference To His Life and Work. New York: Facts on File, 2005.
     Ref. PR2892 .B69 2005

Crystal, David. Shakespeare's Words: A Glossary and Language Companion. New York: Penguin Books, 2002.
     Ref. PR2892 .C78 2002b

Oxford English Dictionary Online
The OED traces a word's development in the English language from its date of introduction to the present. Contains current meanings and includes entomologies and historical quotations. Remote access is available only to SLU students, faculty and staff.

Shewmaker, Eugene F. Shakespeare's Language: a Glossary of Unfamiliar Words in Shakespeare's Plays and Poems. New York: Facts on File, 1996
     Ref. PR 2892 .S447 1996

Wells, Stanley. A Dictionary of Shakespeare. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1998.
     Pius Library PR 2892 .W43 1998 (Available in e-book and print format.)

Madison, Davis J. The Shakespeare Name Dictionary. New York: Garland, 1995.
     Ref. PR 2892 .D33 1995

ENCYCLOPEDIAS

Andrews, John F., ed. Shakespeare's World and Work: an Encyclopedia for Students. New York: Scribners, 2001.
     Ref. PR 2892 .S56 2001

Campbell, Oscar James, ed. A Shakespeare Encyclopedia. London: Methuen, 1967
     Ref. PR 2892 .C3 1967

Dobson, Michael and Stanley Wells, eds. The Oxford Companion to Shakespeare. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001.
    Pius Library PR 2892 .O94 2001 (Available in e-book and print format.)

Olsen, Kirstin. All Things Shakespeare: an Encyclopedia of Shakespeare's World. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2002.
     Ref. PR 2892 .O56 2002

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Search the SLU Libraries Catalog to find books, book chapters, and essays on Shakespeare and his works. If you are unable to find what you need, search MOBIUS, a library catalog that contains the holdings of over fifty college and university libraries in Missouri.

To find criticism of Shakespeare's works, perform a subject search in the SLU Libraries Catalog on "Shakespeare, William" and then select the subject heading that ends in "criticism and interpretation" or the name of the work you're interested in. To find biographical information on Shakespeare, look for the subject heading that ends in "biography."

You can also use a keyword search to find literary criticism that relates to a particular aspect of Shakespeare's works that you're researching. For example, you could perform a keyword search for "Shakespeare and race."

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To find scholarly articles on Shakespeare, his world, and works, use the following library databases. Remote access to library databases is available to SLU students, faculty, and staff. Log in with your SLUNetID and password.

MLA International Bibliography - 1926-present
Indexes books, book chapters, dissertations and articles from over 4,400 journals in language, linguistics, literature, and folklore.

JSTOR
This archival journal resource provides access to the full-text of over 550 journal titles, including many literature journals. Note that the last 1 to 7 years of each journal are not available in this resource.

Project Muse
This electronic journal collection provides full-text access to over 300 scholarly journals, including many literature journals.

Humanities Full Text - 1984-present
Indexes and/or abstracts over 600 humanities periodicals. Full text is available from approximately 230 journals.

Iter Bibliography- 1784-present
Iter indexes articles about the Middle Ages and Renaissance (400-1700) drawn from complete runs of over 1,026 journal titles publishing articles about this period, as well as over 51,000 citations to monographs and material found in monographs.

Historical Abstracts - 1964-present
Covers the world's scholarly literature on the history of the world, except the United States and Canada, from 1450 to the present. 

Arts and Humanities Citation Index - 1995-present
This database provides author and subject indexing of articles published worldwide in arts and humanities journals. It also supports citation indexing, which establishes links between cited articles and the most recent publications in which they are cited.

Academic Search Premier - 1975-present
This multidisciplinary database provides indexing and abstracting for 8,040 journals (6,679 are peer-reviewed) with over 4,060 in full text. Includes humanities journals.

Periodicals Index Online - 1665-1995 
Indexes the articles in over 4,000 periodicals in the humanities and social sciences from their first issues to 1995. Hundreds of journals are available in full text in the complementary database, Periodicals Archive Online. The focus is on 20th century periodicals. However, periodicals in the 20th century that extend back into the 17th, 18th, & 19th centuries are indexed from their earliest volumes. The scope is worldwide and includes journals in English, German, Italian, French, Spanish, and other Western languages.

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Remote access to library databases is available to SLU students, faculty, and staff.

Early English Books Online (1473-1700)
"Contains digital facsimile page images of virtually every work printed in England, Ireland, Scotland, Wales and British North America and works in English printed elsewhere from 1473-1700 - from the first book printed in English by William Caxton, through the age of Spenser and Shakespeare and the tumult of the English Civil War."

Eighteenth Century Collections Online (1701-1800)
“Delivers every significant English-language and foreign-language title printed in Great Britain during the eighteenth century, along with thousands of important works from the Americas.” Includes numerous eighteenth-century editions of the works of Shakespeare.

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Hamlet Works
Based on the materials of the New Variorum Hamlet Project, this site includes texts, concordances, commentary notes, and textual notes.

Internet Shakespeare Editions
Annotated text of Shakespeare's plays, information on his life and times, and records of of the performance of his work.

Mr. William Shakespeare and the Internet
Annotated guide to scholarly Shakespeare resources on the Web.

Open Source Shakespeare
Search and read Shakespeare's works.

The Oxford Shakespeare
The full text of 37 plays, 154 sonnets, and miscellaneous verse from the 1914 Oxford edition of the Complete Works of William Shakespeare..

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Pius XII Memorial Library has many Shakespeare DVDs. To locate them, peform a keyword search in SLU Libraries Catalog on "Shakespeare and DVD." To limit any search to DVDs or videos, click on the Modify Search or Limit/Sort button and limit material type to VIDEO/FILM.

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Citations Styles Handbook: MLA

MLA Formatting and Style Guide

Using MLA Style to Cite and Document Internet Sources

Gibaldi, Joseph. MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers. 6th ed. New York: Modern Language Association of America, 2003.
     Reference Desk LB2369 .G53 2003

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